[cl-irc-devel] trailing-argument slot

[Zach Beane]

cl-irc assigns the final argument of an IRC message to the
TRAILING-ARGUMENT slot if it begins with a colon. However, the colon
is purely a syntactic marker that indicates all following text to the
end of the line is part of the final argument. Colons always precede
final arguments containing spaces, but they might also precede
arguments that will never contain spaces (such as channel names) and
might be omitted from a final argument that happens not to have any
spaces.

For example, the following messages are equivalent:

   :Joe!bob at example.com JOIN #lisp
   :Joe!bob at example.com JOIN :#lisp

And so are these:

   :Joe!bob at example.com PRIVMSG #lisp Hello!
   :Joe!bob at example.com PRIVMSG #lisp :Hello!

And these:

   :Joe!bob at example.com QUIT Leaving
   :Joe!bob at example.com QUIT :Leaving

Unfortunately, cl-irc parses each one of them differently.

Would it be possible to change how IRC-MESSAGE objects are created to
put the final argument into the ARGUMENTS slot?

Zach